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We invite you to…. Help us keep the music alive!

Our Evening at the Dynasty will be an inspirational and memorable occasion, benefiting the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festivals Society, and will include a cocktail reception, three course dinner with wine pairing, a silent and live auction and performances by several 2018 festival participants along with special guestsJonathan Chan and performing partner Jan Bislan.

Every spring for the last 95 years, wonderful sounds have been heard in our City. They are the sounds of music students both in private study and in community and school bands and choirs who enter the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festivals. They come to sing, or strike, or play, or strum, or pluck or bow a whole variety of instruments from woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano and strings to harp and classical guitar. Also heard are the sounds of adjudicators’ voices offering professional, constructive guidance and encouragement to these students, which is the reason for entering our Festivals, and the benefit these students take away from our Festivals.

Over these 95 years we estimate close to 1,000,000 Vancouverites have been touched by our annual music festivals.Music students, their teachers and parents, the volunteers and countless audience members, have all benefited from exposure to our Festival’s unique platform for nurturing the study of music. Perhaps you have been one of them?

Visit the ticket link to purchase your tickets, a table for 10 or make a donation.

Since 2008 the Festivals have been responsible for securing all the funding needed to sustain their programs. Access to funding for student centered amateur music festivals is very limited. Participant entry fees only cover some of the expenses.

Broad based support for the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festivals is essential. Without that support, the Festivals will have to cut back or cease their operations. That would be a very sad event after such a prominent and lengthy history of ‘inspiring musical excellence’.

We invite you to attend our Evening at the Dynasty Gala Dinner or make a donation to help us keep the music alive.

Here are some examples of what your monetary gift could do to help the Festivals:

$100 will tune a piano or provide entry fees for a student who could not otherwise participate

$500 will cover the cost of one adjudicator for one day

$1000 will cover the cost of one day’s venue rent for the choral or band festival

Every gift of $20 or more is 100% tax deductible for 2018.

Visit the ticket link to purchase your tickets, a table for 10 or make a donation.

Whatever you can give will be appreciated and will show your support for our hard-working participants, and your desire to keep the study of music as a vital part of our community.

Keeping the music alive is the goal, and by attending our Evening at the Dynasty Gala Dinner and showing your generous support, this goal will be achieved.

For information call: 604.542.1698

Yours sincerely,

Lynn van Zanten,

Development Director, on behalf of the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festivals Society